Not Enough Hard Drive Space Error
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There Is Not Enough Space On The Disk
transfer files larger than 4GB onto an external hard drive, an error message appears: There is not enough free space on my external drive. Cause: This error is caused due to the destination hard drive running a FAT32 File System. This File System is recognized by most computer operating systems, but has a 4 GB file transfer and creation limitation. This means that files cannot be created or transferred to the hard drive if the file or group of files are larger than 4GB. Solution: If running Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, or running Mac OSX, the external hard drive can be reformatted to either NTFS (Windows) or HFS+ (Mac) File Systems instead. These File Systems are not limited to a 4GB file size. For details on how to reformat a hard drive, please see Answer ID 3865: How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows and macOS. In case the answer did not answer your question, you can always visit the WD Community for help from WD users. Please rate the helpfulness of this answer Answers others found helpful
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open for further replies. Giambattista sssssssssssssssssssssssss sssss Valued Senior Member Messages: 4,878 I have a small, "pocket drive" (Western digital) that actually fits http://www.sciforums.com/threads/hard-drive-says-not-enough-space-but-still-has-50-gb.100767/ in ones pocket. It comes with approximately 250 G all together, but with formatting it's more like 230gb. Well, it the disk properties tell me it has 180 occupied, and 51.8 gb in free space remaining. I just tried to copy over a file that was about 8 gigabytes. It told me that there was not enough room! It accepted a much smaller not enough file fine, but 7.67 gb's is just tooooo much for a hard drive with 50gb FREE to accept! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I have never encountered this before where a hard drive has so much free space and yet tells me it can't give up about 15% of that! Anyone have ANY suggestions, other than run some type not enough space of disk diagnostic on it? Is it an Enron hard drive who reports more free disk space than it actually has? Oh, wait! The file in question was a disk image. The RAR segments that made it up are actually transferring, whereas the disk image itself would apparently not, though the space is the same size. I just had this idea to transfer the Rar's instead, and it worked. Okay? That's also a little puzzling... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! What gives? Giambattista, Apr 5, 2010 #1 Google AdSense Guest Advertisement Log in or Sign up to hide all adverts. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member Messages: 7,721 Sometimes the manufacturer formats them fat16 or some godawful bullshit like that, with these lil thumb drives. it might be having trouble handling really "large" files. nietzschefan, Apr 5, 2010 #2 Google AdSense Guest Advertisement Log in or Sign up to hide all adverts. Dr Mabuse Percipient Thaumaturgist Registered Senior Member Messages: 714 The drive is formatted to Fat32 most likely. This is popular in those drives so they will work with more